I have spent so much time in Canada and it is just unbelievable watching the country go more and more insane.
What I have read about the Harms act is so bat shit crazy that it is hard to believe it can be real. Then looking at polling on support of the bill it seems like that is what Canadians want.
I actually didn't know there are buildings that say "no whites allowed". How incredibly disturbing. All while electing a leader with multiple pictures in black face.
"Harmful" has really become a ridiculous word in my lifetime.
In Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone it mentions how MIT professor/Black Jack card counting/Hedge Fund manager Edward O. Thorp spent a period as a kid building pipe bombs and various chemical explosives for fun.
That is what I could consider a harmful activity.
To pretend ASCII art can be harmful strikes me as the thoughts of someone with paranoid delusions. Someone completely detached from reality that probably needs medication.
It goes along with "safety". The point is that something becomes important and is agreed upon as worth attention so then suddenly people adopt that terminology to push their agenda through. See also bullying, human rights, etc.
You post literally the most ignorant and hilarious comments I've ever read on HN. I'm glad you're shadowbanned, but it's unfortunate you're completely oblivious to that fact and keep commenting hour after hour with drivel that nobody reads.
It also makes me confused as to why only some of your comments are dead flagged but not all. I guess I understand the HN shadowban less than I thought I did.
The entire world is better hearing your opinion of the word "harmful" though, where would we be without your opinion?!
You have such gems as "HTML Monkeys" - if there is any ageism in this industry it's caused by miserable old men like you who absolutely nobody wants to work with. It's absolutely fitting that your knowledge seems to only contain "Perl" and "C." Welcome to 2024, and I know full well you're not a kernel dev, because I am, and we wouldn't use C and Perl in the same sentence.
You're the equivalent to me of my ignorant, dead, racist grandfather going on Facebook and ranting about Jews or Muslims except replace that ignorance with your technology skillset. That's how important your commenting is to probably a majority of HN users who actually work in high end technology in 2024. Enjoy your $85k Perl job while we make $350k writing rust and go and being "basic programmers who don't know programming" because we started writing HTML for our myspace pages at 12 which was evidently beneath you. And now we're launching rockets and building distributed systems when you.. what, made a static web forum in Perl that probably had absolutely no security considerations, was single-threaded (LOL) and absolutely did not autoscale or self-repair?
You can grow old and not become a miserable, rude, depressing old man. It's possible. Also, keep your skills up to date. Nobody, literally nobody talks about perl aside from $35k/yr Russian devs in 2024. I'm 40. I'm not 20. I've been in tech since I was 10. You don't know more than everyone else here because you're old. We were there too - we were just 12, not 30.
And stop using the term "HTML Monkey" for fucks sake. It's incredibly derogatory. You probably use "cable monkey" and a bunch of other "monkey" names. They are all derogatory.
I am sure part of the reason we have popcorn at the movies is that popcorn was easy to scale.
I guess tastes just change. Dinner and a movie did not use to mean dinner AT the movie.
If you want a full restaurant at the movies why not also have an oil change as part of the deal? Watch the movie, all you can eat soup, salad, breadsticks with your meal and at the same time someone changes the oil in your car.
For me, any one of the issues would be a problem in isolation but the combination of issues makes it so going to the movies isn't something I really consider.
Oppenheimer was the first movie I considered going to in a long time but still did not. I am going to finally watch it Sunday. Even if I love it, I know I won't think about how much better it could have been at the movies. I will actually just be grateful it wasn't ruined for me by some negative aspect of going to the movies.
It seems a constant that raves were better 10 years ago before everything became commercialized.
"It use to be about the music"
I remember hearing this 25 years ago.
Of course, what happens is that you get people who have been going to these things for 10 years and the novelty has worn off along with being 10 years older.
Most fun activities are better when you are 10 years younger with no expectations.
I made a pointless cube with a square in VRML a long time ago and VR is ultimately going to be the biggest tech disappointment of my life.
The killer app is what I have when I get lucid inside a dream. To only cover vision is missing so much. I can remember being in a war in a plane and getting shot down in a dream. The decent felt unbelievable. That is the killer app for me. That had nothing to do with vision.
The irony is that youtube was largely built on copyright violation with taking everything that existed in video before youtube and giving it away for free.
I imagine everyone in this thread is basically correct.
The only real thing we have done to combat cancer is stop smoking so much while at the same time increasing every other factor imaginable to promote cancer.
That is great anecdote. I have been trying to get into Schoenberg for about 30 years now and besides for Yuja Wang playing his Piano Suite I continue to fail.
The thing that interests me in your comment is why would you try for thirty years to "get into" something? Or do you mean you don't much care for his music, but no rush in jumping to conclusions...
Do you care for Berg or Webern, by any chance? (Or Stravinsky's serial music for that matter)
I'm not surprised. If I understand his 12-tone system correctly, you need to use each tone equally frequently throughout the piece. But that is the musical equivalent of white noise, or the the equivalent of saying that a novel needs to use all words equally frequently. In order to convey information the content needs to be distinctly more frequent.
What I have read about the Harms act is so bat shit crazy that it is hard to believe it can be real. Then looking at polling on support of the bill it seems like that is what Canadians want.
I actually didn't know there are buildings that say "no whites allowed". How incredibly disturbing. All while electing a leader with multiple pictures in black face.